Anyone know if it's an electronic oscillator with no air being passed through it or does it use a pressurized air stream? It's my understanding that a brass instrument doesn't HAVE to have air blown through it to work, that just happens to be the only way for a human to create the necessary vibrations.
It sounds synthesized to me. Are you sure "he" is actually playing the horn? Randy
I had the opposite feeling. It looks like he (it) is blowing air through it, and pressing keys on a real horn. With the polymers available these days it would be quite easy to make the proper interface to the horn's mouthpiece (along with the vibrations our lips make when we do it), and the programming to press the keys/buttons on the horn is trivial.
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I'm pretty sure he is. I think the "synthness" you're hearing is the fact that you've never heard a trumpet played without the "flaws" inherent with the way humans generate tones on a brass instrument. The articulations, the vibrato.
Could be. Maybe a bad recording too? Randy
The spit.
I have to agree that the sound seems to be genuine; it is a blown trumpet. The two and three-finger slur attacks are too, too real.
I have to vote for the synthetic lips.
I was waiting for the robot to wave the other hand while playing!
Angelo Campanella
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